4742.02
Emergency service telecommunicator training program - fund.

(A)
The state
board of education, in conjunction with emergency service providers, shall
develop a program to provide emergency service telecommunicator training, and
shall implement the program not more than one year after the effective date of
this section. In developing the program, the state board and the emergency
service providers shall accept and consider suggestions from any political
subdivision or other entity, whether located within or outside of this state,
that offers suggestions. The program shall include all of the following:

(1)
A curriculum for a basic course of
emergency service telecommunicator training that conforms to the requirements
of division (A) of section
4742.03 of the Revised Code;

(2)
A curriculum for continuing
education coursework in emergency service telecommunicator training that
conforms to the requirements of division (B) of section
4742.03 of the Revised Code;

(3)
Standards and examinations to
be used in the program to certify that a person has successfully completed a
basic course of, or continuing education coursework in, emergency service
telecommunicator training;

(4)
Implementation of the training program at vocational education centers that are
approved by the board to offer vocational education;

(5)
The provision at least eight times per
year of a basic course of emergency service telecommunicator training at
different vocational education centers around this state selected to reasonably
accommodate persons requesting the training;

(6)
A requirement that any employee of an
emergency service provider may enroll in and complete any course offered under
the program at no charge by the state board to the employee or provider. The
tuition and materials costs for training such employees under the program shall
be paid from the emergency service telecommunicator training fund created under
division (B) of this section.

(7)
A
requirement that space available in each basic course offered by the state
board shall be allocated on a priority basis, first to unpaid volunteers of
emergency service providers, second to paid volunteers of such providers, and
third to other persons;

(8)
A
provision allowing persons who are not employees of emergency service providers
to enroll in any course offered under the program, on a space-available basis.
The state board may charge reasonable tuition to such persons to attend the
course.

(B)
The
emergency service telecommunicator training fund is hereby established in the
state treasury. The state board of education shall use money in the fund only
for the following purposes:

(1)
To develop
the emergency service telecommunicator training program required under division
(A) of this section;

(2)
To pay the
compensation of state board of education employees who administer the program
and the state board's costs of training employees of emergency service
providers at courses offered under the program.

(C)
The state board of education, in accordance with
Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules necessary to develop and
administer the training program under this section.